351 Quotes About Jazz

The day after tomorrow, the day still sleeps.

Do a-little-bit in the yesterdays. Do a-little-bit in the today's. Do a-little-bit in the tomorrows. By the little-bits the little-bits become realized.

A word garden blooming within the tangled weeds.

He opened his laptop and showed me a picture of a “cozy” Greenwich Village apartment he’d found online. My dad, a born New Yorker, had told me stories of the Village, a lively network of cobblestone streets and jazz dives, coffee houses and folk clubs with no cover fee—and I felt a surge of light-headed ambition. “Though it’s kind of strange,” Justin continued, “there is no bathroom inside. Our toilet would be down a public hallway.

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body’s breath, and the strings’ wails and moans are echoes of the body’s music. It is the body’s vibrations which ripple from the fingers. And the mystery of the withheld theme, known to jazz musicians alone, is like the mystery of our secret life. We give to others only peripheral improvisations.

Snot puppies.

Be guided by intuition, not driven by instinct.

The view offer was not clear through the glass of contemplation

His eyes never blinked or wavered from mine, encompassing me in a controlling field.